The Dutch had been involved with the African slave trade for some time, having seized Portugal's Elmina Castle along the West African coast about two decades earlier. Soon after gaining control of ...

Initially, European trade with Africa did not specialise in enslaved ... Enslaved Africans being transported to a Portuguese slave ship. Millions of Africans enslaved and held in slave fortresses ...

1705 The history of the European seaborne slave trade with Africa goes back 50 years prior to Columbus' initial voyage to the Americas. It began with the Portuguese, who went to West Africa in ...

Their lives were thrown into chaos when they decided to travel to England to establish trade relations – but got sold into slavery along the way.

The decline of the slave trade and the opening of the ... Leonardo DiCaprio were shot in Mozambique. Portugal was reluctant to relinquish its African colonies until a 1974 coup made them rethink ...

The Portuguese used to come every year ... However, it was more likely to happen on the west coast of Africa where the slave trade was more established and relations between African rulers ...